Urology reports (St. - Petersburg)Urology reports (St. - Petersburg)2225-90742687-1416Eco-Vector276910.17816/uroved517-10Research ArticleModern techniques for recurrent prostate cancer imaging and perspective of their developmentAl-ShukriSalman Hasunovichdoctor of medical science, professor, head of the department. Department of Urologyal- shukri@mail.ruBorovetsSergey Yurievichdoctor of medical science, senior researcher, Urology Departmentsborovets@mail.ruRybalovMaxim Alexandrovichsenior assistant, Urology Department-First St. Petersburg State I. P. Pavlov Medical University150320155171013052016Copyright © 2015, Al-Shukri S.H., Borovets S.Y., Rybalov M.A.2015This review deals with modern techniques for recurrent prostate cancer imaging and recommendations for their use. Perspective of development of these technologies and ways to improve the efficiency of diagnostics are shown.imaging techniquesrecurrent prostate cancerdiagnosticsметоды визуализациирецидивы рака предстательной железыдиагностика[Picchio M., Briganti A., Fanti S. et al. The role of choline positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the management of patients with prostate-specific antigen progression after radical treatment of prostate cancer // Eur. Urol. 2011. Vol. 59, N 1. P. 51-60.][von Eyben F. E., Kairemo K. Meta-analysis of (11)C-choline and (18)F-choline PET/CT for management of patients with prostate cancer // Nucl. Med. Commun. 2014. Vol. 35, N 3. P. 221-230.][Ceci F., Herrmann K., Castellucci P. et al. Impact of 11C-choline PET/CT on clinical decision making in recurrent prostate cancer: results from a retrospective two-centre trial // Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging. 2014. Vol. 41, N 12. P. 2222-2231.][Bouchelouche K., Choyke P. L., Capala J. Prostate specific membrane antigen-A target for imaging and therapy with radionuclides // Discov. Med. 2010. Vol. 9, P. 55-61.][Afshar-Oromieh A., Zechmann C. M., Malcher A. et al. Comparison of PET imaging with a (68)Ga-labelled PSMA ligand and (18)F-choline-based PET/CT for the diagnosis of recurrent prostate cancer//Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging. 2014. Vol. 41, N 1. P. 11-20.][Hegde J. V., Mulkern R. V., Panych L. P. et al. Multiparametric MRI of prostate cancer: an update on state-of-the-art techniques and their performance in detecting and localizing prostate cancer // J. Magn. Reson. Imaging. 2013. Vol. 37, N 5. P. 1035-1054.][Akin O., Gultekin D. H., Vargas H. A. et al. Incremental value of diffusion weighted and dynamic contrast enhanced MRI in the detection of locally recurrent prostate cancer after radiation treatment: preliminary results // Eur. Radiol. 2011. Vol. 21, N 9. P. 1970-1978.][Donati O. F., Jung S. I., Vargas H. A. et al. Multiparametric prostate MR imaging with T2-weighted, diffusion-weighted, and dynamic contrast-enhanced sequences: are all pulse sequences necessary to detect locally recurrent prostate cancer after radiation therapy? // Radiology. 2013. Vol. 268, N 2 P. 440-450.][Kitajima K., Murphy R. C., Nathan M. A. et al. Detection of recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy: comparison of 11C-choline PET/CT with pelvic multiparametric MR imaging with endorectal coil // J. Nucl. Med. 2014. Vol. 55, N 2. P. 223-232.][Afshar-Oromieh A., Haberkorn U., Schlemmer H. P. et al. Comparison of PET/CT and PET/MRI hybrid systems using a 68Ga-labelled PSMA ligand for the diagnosis of recurrent prostate cancer: initial experience // Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging. 2014. Vol. 41, N 5. P. 887-897.]